Date: December 28, 2011
Venue: Brooklyn Bowl (Brooklyn, NY)
Interview and videos: Sohrab Saadt Ladjevardi
Red Baraat interview
Tag Archives: Sunny Jain
Asphalt Orchestra – the avant-garde “street” jazz group at Lincoln Center (NY)
Date: Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Venue: Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center
Concert review by Sarah Rayani
On a very rainy evening, under an awning at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the Asphalt Orchestra delighted and surprised a group of about 100 soggy New Yorkers. I came to hear about the avant-garde “street” jazz group through Sunny Jain, one of their 3 percussionists. Jain is a Punjabi American-born drummer, dhol player and composer who seamlessly fuses the two styles he grew up listening to — Jazz and Indian music. In addition to being a member of the Asphalt Orchestra and his own Sunnay Jain Quartet, he plays in a Baraat group – traditionally a North Indian wedding processional band – called Red Baraat.
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Interview: Sunny Jain – another Indian-American monsoon!
Text and interview by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi August 3, 2011 at the Lincoln Center (NY)
Drummer, composer, educator and band leader (Asphalt Orchestra, Red Baraat and Sunny Jain Collective) Sunny Jain, a native of Rochester, New York, now living and working in New York City, is one of the South Asian-American jazz musicians who brings Jazz and the ancient sounds of India together. His Punjabi roots and appreciation for Bollywood classics and Indian dance rhythms can be heard in his work. In general his music is very eclectic fusing Jazz with Indian music integrating drum & bass, progressive rock, Brazilian and West African rhythms.
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